ABC destroys Australia’s Middle East legacy

Piers Akerman

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Wednesday,
November,
21,
2012,(4:08am)

PRO-Palestine broadcaster ABC skips the facts when it covers the Gaza conflict.

Lateline presenter Emma Alberici didn’t mind giving the evil Hamas terrorists a leg-up when she permitted Arab propagandist Rami Khouri to take over her show almost uninterrupted.

Khouri, from the American University of Beirut’s Institute of Public Policy and International Affairs, told blatant untruths - and was unchallenged.

How about this whopper: “The Arabs have given the Israelis a peace plan and accepted to live with a Israeli state as it is now, predominantly a Jewish majority Israeli state.”

Totally false as anyone with the slightest interest in Middle East peace would know. The Arabs have not presented any peace plan that would support a predominantly Jewish majority state. Never have since Israel was created by the UN in 1948 only to face continuing Arab hostility.

That doesn’t bother the ABC though.

“We have given them a formal peace plan,” Khouri baldly stated. Total nonsense.

“We accept the legitimacy of an Israeli state.” Absolute garbage.

“We’re willing to live at peace with it.” Another monstrous lie.

“We’re willing to have normal relations with it.” Oh, yeah?

“They have not made that counter gesture to the Palestinians and I think the real political onus is more on the Israelis now than on the Arabs and they try to camouflage that with their exaggerated fears of security and their exaggerated response of militarism.” What utter bull.

As US President Barack Obama said on Monday about the current Gaza-Israel conflict: “Israel has every right to expect that it does not have missiles fired into its territory.”

“Let’s understand what the precipitating event here was that’s causing the current crisis, and that was an ever-escalating number of missiles. They were landing not just in Israeli territory, but in areas that are populated. And there’s no country on Earth that would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders.”

“If we’re serious about wanting to resolve this situation and create a genuine peace process, it starts with no more missiles being fired into Israel’s territory, and that then gives us the space to try to deal with these longstanding conflicts that exist.”

Britain’s Foreign Secretary William Hague said: “We call on Hamas again to stop the rocket attacks on Israel. It is Hamas that bears, as, as I’ve said before, the principle responsibility for starting all of this and we would like to see an agreed cease fire, an essential component of which is an end to those rocket attacks.”

How did the ABC miss these world leaders’ views on the attacks, how did they get it so wrong?

No-one should be in any doubt about the real nature of Hamas and its military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades.

This is the message Hamas is broadcasting on its Al-Aqsa TV: “From the Al-Qassam Brigades to the Zionist soldiers: The Al-Qassam Brigades love death more than you love life.”

This is the standard taunt of Islamist murderers worldwide.

Up to Monday, more than 1,900 rockets and mortars had been fired at Israeli civilians from Gaza this year. More than three million Israelis live within range of rocket and mortar attacks.

In the area closest to the Gaza border where most rocket attacks occur there are more than 90 schools and 61 kindergartens.

All kindergartens and schools remain closed within a 40-kilometer radius of the Gaza border.

All residents within this area are urged to remain within a maximum 15 seconds from a bomb shelter or protected area – the time residents have to reach shelter once radar detects incoming projectiles and triggers air raid sirens.

Not for the first time, Israel is treating Gaza patients in its hospitals - 19 hospitals are located in the range of Hamas’ rockets.

By midday Monday, Hamas had launched at least 45 rockets into Israel.

More than 880 rockets and mortars have been fired from Gaza since the beginning of Operation Pillar of Defense.

Yet our ABC finds it more convenient to repeat the propaganda of a terrorist regime which is holding reporters hostage and hiding its armed forces within a civilian population.

What an utter disgrace - and all funded by the Australian taxpayers!

“Doc” Evatt, the sometimes erratic Labor Foreign Minister who took such pride in working to create the UN, to create Israel and, along the way, support the liberation of Indonesia, would be wondering how Australia’s Middle East legacy has been betrayed.

Have Your Say

The abc seems to be getting worse every day.I must admit I have totally ceased to watch any of it’s news or current affairs programmes. It has become bloated and unwieldy and a burden on taxpayers. It needs a complete overhaul.

And the repeated programs, so many repeats, isn’t it obvious that ALPBC cannot afford 4 channels plus the Conroy gift of Asian broadcasts? In my opinion the taxpayer funded broadcasters should be sold to help retire the growing federal government plus NBN Co debts, or at least merged and made smaller.

Caz replied to Hotrocks
Wed 21 Nov 12 (06:35am)

Unless by ‘overhaul,’ you mean lock the doors and raze it to the ground (in a non violent way) then we are only in partial aggreeance, Hot. It’s an uncontrollable monster and if Abbott doesn’t sort it out once and for all then we’re wasting our time here.

NevilleW replied to Hotrocks
Wed 21 Nov 12 (08:20am)

Caz, don’t expect Abbott to take on anybody if elected, his current strategy is to lie low and get elected by default(carbon tax notwithstanding). Trouble is he will have no mandate to do anything for four years.

Warren replied to Hotrocks
Wed 21 Nov 12 (08:59am)

The ABC is a total disgrace.

Emma Alberici and Leigh Sales should be held to account.
The sale of this corporation would be a good first step to the economic and intellectual recovery of our nation.

uncle replied to Hotrocks
Wed 21 Nov 12 (11:37am)

I stopped watching it after abour 5 minutes because I could’nt stand the obvious untruth that was being spruiked. Sell the ABC to provate Enterprise and sack all it’s left wing staff.

Mandrake replied to Hotrocks
Wed 21 Nov 12 (12:33pm)

I mentioned at work once that I thought an expensive state run media outlet was innappropriate and the ABC should be privatised. The respons from my lefty colleagues was instant outraged indignation. So much for diversity of opinion!
The reality though is that the ABC has a small audience and its hard to justify shovelling taxpayers money at the dreadfully biased propaganda arm of the ALP. The ever shrinking pool of money would be better spent elsewhere.
I used to watch the ABC religiously many years ago but I very rarely watch it any more because I like to see real news, not editorialised and biased rubbish.

Surely it’s time to close the ABC.

Why do we need a national broadcaster in this day and age?

If I were Tony Abbott, my first project as Prime Minister would be to shut down the ABC......there’s a billion dollars saved if nothing else.

Agree. Shut it down. It must be supporting hundreds and hundreds of lefty journos across Channel 2, News24, The Drum, radio and country stations. It’s a money sucking tick that’s getting bloated and complacent on taxpayer’s blood.

Day 1 - Headline - Thousands Lose Jobs, Abbott Axes ABC.

Hugh replied to TOP
Wed 21 Nov 12 (07:10am)

Separation of News and State

I agree, TOP - why do we need this extremist leftist Labor mouthpiece?

Simply break up its component parts and privatise it - sell it off!

The Liberals will have a hard time paying down Labor debt this time without government assets like Telstra to sell off.

Well, why not privatise the ABC? Put it out for public tender - sell shares. Make it accountable to the shareholders.

Commercial management would very swiftly put it on a balanced commercial footing and cut the leftist control of its news and current affairs programming.

A billion dollars a year saved!

Aktosplatz replied to TOP
Wed 21 Nov 12 (07:27am)

I totally agree, TOP.

I neither watch TV nor listen to the ABC at all anymore.

It’s not just this biased reporting concerning Israel, it is their bias in favour of Labor / Green attitudes and policies (not that they ever have anything called ‘policies’).

The citizens of Australia totally rely on an impartial, fair minded MSM that will alert them to any threats, dangers, or loss of integrity in the machinery of government.

The MSM (which includes the ABC) have failed in their contrived silence of matters concerning Gillard, Thomson, and Slipper, and I am sure there are others.

The ABC is the same monster as the BBC, they have everything in common, and now we see the cover ups and the bland silences concerning the late Jimmy Saville ‘ s activities with children.
(I could never stand that bastard anyway)

As far as I am concernec the BBC are accomplices and should be prosecuted.

I sense that the ABC is no different and they need to be brought to account and that should include criminal charges being laid.

But in the end, it should be sold and closed down as it is an abject failure. I no longer trust the veracity of any of their documentaries or doco - dramas.

deejay replied to TOP
Wed 21 Nov 12 (07:32am)

TOP, I’m not sure that closing the ABC is the answer. I think myself that, on a change of government, something should be done to even up the score , so to say, and get some journalists in there with a contrary view to every one there at the moment.

Balanced reporting so the speak if that is at all possible, but maybe people like Mike Smith and Glenn Milne would enjoy being employed again and would probably present alternative views to some of the clowns that now infest the ABC.

I’m not sure how you actually achieve that but it is what is needed in my opinion.

By closing down something that is unacceptable to our views (I feel as strongly about the ABC as you obviously do and stopped watching it some time ago) to me smacks of just what we are fighting against with this despicable woman in Canberra. “She” wants to shut down all debate on “her” past and deny us freedom of speech on all subjects and to follow “her” type of agenda is just another step on the way to communism.

I think Tony Abbott has many No. 1 priorities like:-
Stopping the boats,
Curbing the unions with a Royal Commission,
Making unions accountable to statutory authorities,
Cleaning out the judiciary,
Curbing expenditure,
Cease the never ending borrowing on the Chinese credit card,
Culling the Public Service, particularly the “Climate Change” Dept,
Firing flannery,
Getting rid of bryce.

There are probably lots, lots more but the above should keep the Coalition busy for a while.

However, we must not forget that even after the election, the lunatic greens will still have numbers in the Senate and if, for some unaccountable reason the union/liars party get more seats than they deserve, getting reforms in place will still be a very difficult proposition.

TOP replied to TOP
Wed 21 Nov 12 (07:41am)

I wouldnt bother trying ot sell it off or privatising the ABC......it will take too long to convert into something profitable for any inveesters.

It would be easier to just shut it down and sell the property, land and any othr tangible assetts.......make as much as possible from the sale of the bricks and mortar and save all the operating costs. There are enough old journos around who can retire and open up oportunities for the sheltered workshop staff which are currently employed by the ABC and SBS.

Does anyone know how many people are employed by the ABC and SBS? There must be tens of thousands.......you only need to drive in the country to realise how many numskulls overlap each other........try driving to Adelaide from Melbourne and see how many ABC radio channels you can listen to in any given location.......usually 4 or 5 stations all broadcasting the same crap at different times using different “personalities”.....a true waste of money......our money.

The ABC is the mouth piece of the ALP and does what it’s paid to do, complete with inherent left leaning bias.

Watch the outcry if Abbott ever tries to shut them down.

NevilleW replied to TOP
Wed 21 Nov 12 (08:24am)

Only in the lucky country do we have a overblown national broadcaster, how many other broadcasters do we have?

Big Ears lover replied to TOP
Wed 21 Nov 12 (08:54am)

Hey TOP, maybe after the axing, Tony can start a right wing biased station. It can be called DEF… “We can’t hear the left”

Watch them complain about funding that one!!!

P.J. replied to TOP
Wed 21 Nov 12 (09:39am)

Wouldn’t it be great if the ABC was run by newsworthy people, like Alan Jones, Michael Smith, Glenn Milne, Andrew Bolt, and best of all, Piers Akerman! When Coalition are running the country as it should be done, they should just REMOVE all the biased, bigotted, bas***rds, at ABC, who are working for the LABOR PARTY! Or they could be sent to the Middle East to report the TRUTH!

Seaforth replied to TOP
Wed 21 Nov 12 (09:57am)

TOP I don’t think Tony Abbott will meddle in ABC land.

If he did so then he would be just as bad as Gillard and her pathetic attempts to control the news output of the Oz.

Howard had a decade of abuse from the ABC and he just took it on the chin. In the end who emerged with their reputation in tact?

Media which engages in partisan politics will sink in it own cesspool. Have a look at the Fairfax in general and the Age in particular. They won’t cover election 2013 impartially. They wont be around.

Robert the realist replied to TOP
Wed 21 Nov 12 (11:22am)

Top, closing the ABC does not fix the ailment.
The ABC is only where the ailment manifests itself. The real problem and I have been saying this for decades is the education system. Those running the ABC and those journalists with a left bent have all come through the Australian education system. What Tony Abbott needs to do is smash the Teachers Federation, get rid of the union influences in our education system. Privatise the education system set up a national curriculum and make sure all schools are teaching it . The role of the education department (Federal or State) would be to ensure a balanced view is presented with no radical ideologies espoused (e.g.Islam).

rich replied to TOP
Wed 21 Nov 12 (11:43am)

I don’t think Abbott would close the ABC. Can you just imagine the howls from the left. It just wouldn’t be worth it.

What he should do though, is just cut it’s funding by say 25%. That way they would be forced to shut down the useless 24 hour propaganda service, and restore it to being the HD channel which is what it’s supposed to be.

Cut the pay of the luvvie reporters as well, and we will see how long they last before the massive hypocrites leave and go back to a commercial station.

DS May replied to TOP
Wed 21 Nov 12 (01:05pm)

Shut down the National broadcasert and only have the regional ones.
Do the same with the private broadcasters,force them to only be regional,same with the rags,get back to what it should be about,local news,concentrate on local concerns and not international(the www gives us enough international crap to keep us happy).

And while we are at it geld the Federal govt and give the power back to the States.
It’s time to stop the Fed govt making all this legislation and statutes,we don’t need so many effing laws,only govts that are frightened of their citizens make so many!
Besides who needs a Fed govt when the bastards have sold us to the UN and we are now beholden to their laws,I say cut out the middle-man,seeing that it’s too late to turn back!

If we cut our ties with the UN within 6 months there would be forces from the USA EU China and Russia on our shores.

Susan P. replied to TOP
Wed 21 Nov 12 (01:05pm)

“Doc" Evatt, the sometimes erratic Labor Foreign Minister who took such pride in working to create the UN, to create Israel and, along the way, support the liberation of Indonesia, would be wondering how Australia’s Middle East legacy has been betrayed.

Labor again!

Have learned not to trust them at all!

Same for the MSM like the ABC.

It recently dawned on me that perhaps the UN created Israel to make themselves look good after WW2.

I am pretty sure that everyone at the UN - that bastion of human rights and freedom - back then, (and now too), were totally convinced Israel would be wiped off the map the day after partition!

They had nothing to lose. They were wrong.

Since that day they have done nothing else but criticise Israel for the stupidest things and supported all those who wish to destroy it.

scotty replied to TOP
Wed 21 Nov 12 (03:45pm)

deejay,’Getting rid of bryce’ won’t happen til March 2014. The Queen extended her term, probably thanks to Gillard. Am sure some of us have realised, Labor have a growing army of future labor voters and those in the public service - ABC who will remain loyal to the party machine.

Out shopping today, look around you and observe potential labor voters. Simple people with no other thought in their heads but their own lives. When they do have to vote, it will as expected.

~scotty~

Justa comment replied to TOP
Wed 21 Nov 12 (06:02pm)

Have to agree with your view on the ABC and Abbott’s top priorities. Sell the ABC and we save lots an dlots and maybe get a reasonable price for its assets to help repay Labor’s waste.

truth replied to TOP
Thu 22 Nov 12 (12:39am)

I don’t think Abbott could possibly close down the ABC.

Richard Alston merely talked about reforming it in the last decade---- and the ABC Labor culture went from strength to strength after vilifying and demonising him and the Coalition with more vehemence than ever.

They’re absolutely without shame about their wall to wall former Labor staffers and others of the Left, and as we know, they even rail against token conservatives on the board or as chairman.

Mandating a reasonably even mix in their presenters and commentators wouldn’t help either, because they’d just do what SKY does---wheel out only people like Hewson, Debnam, Baird, Washer, Broadbent and others of the so-called ‘moderate’ liberals---even Slipper--- who are always too ready to undermine the Coalition in order to display what they see as their own compassion and general goodness---as Mal Washer did over Slipper.

What the Coalition should do, I think, is to actually confront the interviewers at every opportunity---on air, in the moment---with their bias, as in their ‘indulgent auntie’ treatment of Labor politicians and rottwieler ferocity or snide disdain for Coalition politicians---their selectivity about the experts they put forward[ ie almost exclusively leftist ‘experts’]---their manipulation of the news, as in reporting on America and the tea Party, and Obama---their suppression of information when it suits their agenda to keep it under wraps, as in the Climategate emails, and developments in the science---their corruption of cause and effect, as in the Palestinian conflict---their propaganda masquerading as news as in the Iraq war etc etc.

The Coalition interviewees should just ask them very deliberately---on air---why they think it’s reasonable in what’s supposed to be a democracy, for a broadcaster to use methods like the above to skew public opinion to suit themselves---what gives them the right---why it should not be seen as an obscene abuse of power….

Of course there’d be screams of ‘shooting the messenger’, to which the Coalition should reply that such a response is just the MSM’s way of intimidating them, and of even further shutting down dissent.

They should do this whenever any journalists are manifesting bias, no matter how subtle---[they can be subtle themselves in response]----but being careful not to try to attack legitimate factually-based criticism---that would discredit them.

They have to be prepared to deal competently with factual criticism.

They wouldn’t need to be raucous and aggressive when calling the media out---just firmly saying their piece.

They owe it to us to confront the bias and propaganda as much as possible ---otherwise they’re tacitly endorsing it and betraying their supporters and Australia..

I seem to remember a time when the ABC was a far more conservative organisation than it is today, a guardian of the Queen’s English so to speak.

I mean they went to the trouble of sending Kerry O’Brien down here from Gore Hill to demonise my community in the course of a Four Corners Report titled Aliens Forever because I gather we appeared to congregate in Sydney’s Inner Western Suburbs from Homebush to Redfern.

Kerry O’Brien went to the trouble of interviewing my late father-in-law Cyril who was at the time a Professor of Gastroenterology at Prince Henry Hospital who moved to Pymble in the 1950s after returning from Korea, and I suspect he had a grudge because Gough Whitlam was invited to speak at our community club in the city during the election campaign of 1972.

Cyril agreed with O’Brien about a perceived unwillingness of our people to integrate into the wider Australian community without taking into account the incompatible reproductive systems although they are similar, language barriers amidst the older generations and the like. O’Brien interviewed my wife in what became a terrifying experience for my family, before proceeding to King Street to blab on about what he called “hieroglyphic style writing on shop awnings” in the process of walking past the angry business owners in my community who didn’t take to O’Brien’s journalistic style.

He then proceeded to annoy my now late elderly parents operating a service station at the southern end of King Street. My father threw a left hook at O’Brien which unfortunately didn’t connect. All you could hear from O’Brien was “Mervyn do not attack the equipment!”. That fury microphone thing is a tempting punching bag that’s for sure.

O’Brien being the gutless bastard that he is took the side of an old local codger who was complaining about the implementation of self service at the garage because some native born people didn’t want my mother filling up their cars and yet some did want this service. You couldn’t seem to win. At first my father pretended that he could not speak English. When the mellee erupted you could he the old codger shout “He’s speaking English now!” once expletives were thrown in against O’Brien and his camera crew.

Four Corners today has become somewhat of a toothless tiger. We have had shootings all year in Sydney and a near Islamic uprising in the heart of the CBD and not even so much as a whimper from them. But when you have Kerry O’Brien as the presenter and no longer the junior reporter you can’t expect Walkley Award winning quality can you?

Piers,.....What has happened in Australia, or in particular what has happened within the Australian media that has changed the way we see conflicts such as these.
We now see an excited media when there is a ‘spring uprising’, reporting how grand it will be in whichever country the ‘spring uprising’ occurs only to find out when we read the small print that democracy has not won the day, rather, the Muslim Brotherhood has won the day.
Yet many in our media would still spin the story that democracy has been the winner.
We can see it as we want to see it, but, nothing will change the fact these people have no understanding of what democracy means to us in the West. They have their own style of ‘democracy’ that they have had for many thousands of years and no one or no thing will ever change them.
Why is our media promoting a ‘false’ democracy while at the same time being critical and demeaning of a democracy more in line with our own.
Are there people within our media trying to change us as well.

Oh Bazza, have you just woken up to this??
Our social engineers at the Another Biased Commentary are working overtime, and yes, it should be dispensed with.

Boadica replied to Bazza
Wed 21 Nov 12 (07:44am)

“Are there people within our media trying to change us as well” - YES they are. We have twenty-four hours of propaganda on ABC24. Another notable title I find suspect is when any country uses “Democratic State” etc., within their title, it is always the opposite. I think the ABC and the BBC (British Broadcasting Company) are two peas in a pod. Both have adopted the “Goebels” propaganda model and unfortunately people will eventually be sucked in (just like the Germans) if we do not vote the present Gillard Government out.

With regard to the Gaza-Israel conflict, I am afraid there will never, ever be peace. Whilst I do not support Hamas, I have met ex British Soldiers who did witness Palestinian people being thrown out of their houses by Jewish authorities in 1948. Of course it is hearsay, but the stories are still told and the hatred, due to the loss of the Palestinian homeland, is strong. Perhaps propaganda at work once again?

Bazza replied to Bazza
Wed 21 Nov 12 (08:20am)

mal0........I have been well aware of the the bias in the ABC for a long time, particularly on western democracies. But this support for the Arabs has grown greatly since the advent of the ‘spring uprisings’ and I am questioning why the ABC is motivated to push the Arab cause. If they have it in for the Israelis that is one thing but to support and push the Arab cause is beyond the pale. In my opinion the reason they are as biased as they are is due to the fact the management has allowed the HR dept to employ a full stable of leftist loonies. Group thinkers should be employed by “Institutes” not media outlets.

Ozzie Voter replied to Bazza
Wed 21 Nov 12 (08:23am)

Bazza - Arab Spring, Asian Century - just ‘feel good’ banner headlines trumpeted by politicians to try to inspire the masses. The Obama administration thought that getting rid of Gadhafi would bring democracy to Libya, but instead it installed another murderous regime every bit as hostile to the West.
Personally, I think Western countries are in permanent decline, sorry to say. They are being run by inept, corrupt regimes, too intent on power for power’s sake and on enriching themselves at the expense of their constituents.
They are not being called to account because their supporters in the Media keep proclaiming their virtues loud and long. And the opinion polls reflect the success of this strategy.
Is it any wonder that there is a pall of despair over this nation - and the US - where for the first time some States are talking of sesession?
I heard on the news today that the Craig Thomson case should be finalised by the end of the year. But then comes the court case. It seems we have to wait until late 2013 after all. Sigh!

Hi Bazza
I think one of the chief imperfections of democracy is is that it inadvertently encourages the growth within them of powerful and well-organized special interest minority groups - so these groups get their way not infrequently at the expense of the majority ‘s interests .
All mature democracies are beset by such interest groups whose lack of accountability to the people as a whole is what can make them disruptive influences.
Democracy is far from a perfect system but it is by quite a long way the least imperfect system there is.
But it has to have two powerful adjuncts to work
1. A free press
2. And the rule of law administered by an independent judicial system-- i.e. free of activist judges.
Unfortunately Australia has neither. and to make matters worse it has not got an educated or reflective electorate thanks to the dumbing -down public education system which is in the hands of the politically correct progressive Leftists.

truth replied to Bazza
Wed 21 Nov 12 (02:12pm)

Bazza…

A resounding YES.

Piers is so right.

The ABC has always peddled whatever version of reality they want embedded in the Australian psyche, and suppressed any information that might rain on their own agenda----and their version of the Middle East that they flog to every corner of this country is always the GreenLeft version ----and of course many who can’t be bothered checking it out for themselves , buy the ABC propaganda wholesale and sell it on..

Back in the first Gulf War days , their ‘go-to’ expert was Dr Robert Springborg who was at Macquarie Uni at the time.

Springborg , although American, was, like most of the ‘experts’ the ABC uses, fully in the required mode---this time the Palestinian mode ---even to the extent of surrounding himself with things Palestinian in his own home------ his broadcasts and spin leaving the viewer in no doubt whatsoever on which side of the Middle Eastern divide, his sympathies lay.

This whole Arab Spring development since 2011 would be seen by Labor’s ‘true believers’ at the ABC as a triumph for one of their own sisterhood, Sharan Burrow.

Sharan Burrow heads the International Trade Union Confederation in Brussels, and proudly takes credit for her seminal role in fomenting the unrest and demands that precipitated it.

She plies her activism and busybodying in almost every country---right across the Middle East and especially in the US, where massively-increasing entitlements secured by Obama’s union boss comrades ensured his re-election, but are breaking economies---especially in Labor’s poster child for climate policy, stony-broke California.

From a Melbourne University spiel….

‘Burrow wants unions to be at the centre of democracy movements across the Middle East and North Africa…’

‘Burrow now moves in powerful circles - meeting with prime ministers and presidents, facing down CEOs, making sure she is on the inside at summits of the G20 nations..’

Naturally though, Burrow and her organisation, are blaming economic problems around the world, like the Greek self-immolation and the crumbling of Europe -----on ‘unrestrained market forces’ .

‘Just ask an unemployed parent in Greece, a pensioner in Britain, a subsistence farmer in Africa or an evicted homeowner in the US whether the system is working for them.’ says Burrow.’
The ABC, especially when reporting on Muslim terrorism , and notably in reporting on this latest exchange, uses the Muslims’ own device ----ie the useful corruption of ‘cause and effect’----to direct blame where they want it to go.

And so we have Labor’s ABC promoting the Hamas version , where rockets fired from the Palestinian homes, schools etc, are merely in retaliation against the monstrous , out-of-the-blue Israeli air attacks.

The much-celebrated, much-awarded , some would say ‘propagandist’ rather than reporter, Paul McGeough, relentlessly used the useful Muslim device , when reporting from Iraq and other places.

Now, the ABC will have a dilemma in reporting with a positive spin the public execution and horrible desecration the bodies of those who , Hamas decided , were Israeli collaborators---even with their propensity for the---- useful Muslim device.

What does the grandaddy of Labor, Bob Hawke “Honestly” think of his Foreign Minister and his ABC when they encourage and promote such radical tripe.
Man up Bob and put them back in their box. Explain the facts of life to these imbeciles.

Not forgeting Paul Keating when as PM he flicked aside
ASIO’s security warnings re Sheik Hilali insisting instead
he be allowed to settle in Australia.

The rest is a sorry history of incitement against Australia.
ASIO was correct Keating wrong and prefering instead to
betray his our country’s security.

Why did Keating do this to Australia afterall he must have
known of the car bomb attacks in the early 1980’s on
Sydney’s Westfield Tower and the Hakoa Club by an
Islamic terrorist living in Australia.

The trigger devices for these attacks being flown into Sydney
from a terrorist cell based in Irag ....Source.. Scent of a
Crime by Ron Stephenson ...Griffin Press...2004

What is it with Labor… it seems to some observers the ALP
wont be happy until Australia also is a terrorist hub as is
the UK after the Blair New Labour decade.

barry replied to Evangalia
Wed 21 Nov 12 (10:36am)

Save your words Evangalia, Bob is behind this stuff all the way.

It shouldn’t surprise anyone these days regarding the ABC, the standard and quality of the people there has become very poor. They are basically the propaganda arm of the Labor/Greens/?Independents, [the question mark is because there is no way that you could call them Independents, they are just another arm of Labor].

ABC left wing news programs should be exposed for what they are ….politically biased, deliberately worded to excite sensationalism and generally inaccurate and misleading because the content omits all other viewpoints that conflict with the socialist agenda of the ABC.

It is patently obvious to the discerning viewer/listener that the ABC continually churns out only one side of the story… all we want is balance and the truth! The ABC is misleading the public with their biased reporting.

What is wrong with these idiots ?…It’s obvious……they are socialists who vote Labor or Greens.

~scotty~

No doubt media watch will pounce on this and expose the corruption of journalism that was displyed by Alberici. So now we can rest easy

You will be waiting a very long time for Media Watch to reveal anything of worth. Media Watch is part of the problem so is unlikely to be part of the answer.

Jonathan Holmes, the presenter of Media Watch, was the presenter of the two part Four Corners programme which convinced the average Australian that AWB was paying Kickbacks in Iraq. The ABC engaged the services of professional actors to show the money being paid so people saw the evil deed with their very own eyes.

Last night on ABC Q&A;, Mr Rudd made a remark right at the end that his greatest achievement was the prevention of Kickbacks being paid to Saddam Hussein by AWB.

In actual fact, AWB stopped the Kickbacks being received by Saddam Hussein by unloading the wheat from the bulk carriers at a general cargo wharf inside Iraq. This avoided the use of trucks to transport the wheat from the nearest bulk terminal, which happens to be located in neighbouring Jordan.

Either Mr Rudd is a slow learner or a very cunning liar. Mr Rudd appears to aspire to some future role in the United Nations. If so, he should have known the wheat supplied to Iraq was arranged by the UN Oil for Food Program, a humanitarian project initiated by the UN to avoid starvation by Iraqi citizens.

Some people seem to thrive on situations where the opportunity to exploit defenceless people are involved. I suggest you Google the name George Soros and you will see what I mean.

If Australia had any journalists who were capable of investigating issues, the possible connection between Mr Rudd and George Soros would come under scrutiny. They both seem to have the same ambition, to rule the world, using the United Nations as their preferred vehicle.

BTW, No less than three courts of law overseas have already dismissed claims that AWB made any payments to Saddam Hussein and the AFP hold legal advice that any similar claims in Australia would not stand up in court either. I don’t think you will hear that on Media Watch either.

The Village Idiot (Reformed) replied to barry
Wed 21 Nov 12 (11:02am)

No Barry - Jon Holmes has already said he can’t do attack pieces on his fellow ABC freeloaders because he’d have to face them on a Tuesday morning. No doubt he’d have to go on stress leave and “our ABC” would have to give him a $1 million payout.

barry replied to barry
Wed 21 Nov 12 (04:50pm)

I really thought that the sarcasm would have been dripping from my dig at Media Watch

truth replied to barry
Thu 22 Nov 12 (01:30am)

Not a word from Rudd or the ABC about the Securency and Note Printing Australia scandal, AWB---yet another matter that should be the subject of a Royal Commission, or at least a very comprehensive inquiry,with people made accountable, if Australia’s reputation is to be rehabilitated.

It’s a real live scandal, with culpability going all the way to the top of the RBA, with allegations that the Deputy RBA Governor knew about it for three years before notifying police.

He and Glenn Stevens were anything but forthcoming about it in Senate Estimates---very shaky, and not credible.

The Reserve Bank were reportedly trying to keep it all ‘in house’ until the very persistent whistleblower put an end to that.

ASIC was notified, but allegedly didn’t look into it when they should have.

It’s an absolute disgrace to Australia, with allegations of bribery and corruption on a huge and sordid scale, and shadowy middlemen---right across the world, but especially in Asia.

Meanwhile, Glenn Stevens is , IMO, doing whatever he can to help the Gillard government, who will be very grateful for the rate cut expected soon.

You have to think the ABC’s slavering and drooling over the Royal Commission into paedophilia must be because they want to divert attention from the Securency scandal---- Gillard’s AWU scandal---- Craig Thomson and Michael Williamson and their HSU scandal---the corruption in the union movement in general---and the Heiner matter.

All are really serious matters in need of years of comprehensive and expensive inquiry, but there’s no money.

How convenient for these managers and manipulators of information, that they can have the benefit of a Royal Commission that they will make into an anti-Catholic witch hunt that completely eats up all the money and oxygen and air time-----and fortuitously puts the mockers on all of these other matters that they no doubt expect will slip quietly under the radar.

We must not let them succeed---and hopefully the time of reckoning on the AWU scandal is at hand.

Shorten was finally grilled to some extent about it tonight by Tony Jones, and looked incredibly shaken and rattled, I thought.

Suse, not “my” ABC either. The ABC has been hijacked by the left. There is a definite practise of excluding views that are not consistant with the left wing views of the ABC so as a media outlet it is pandering to a particular demographic. So much for “Our” ABC. Basically it is broadcasting pro-Labor propaganda. It is a disgraceful position to take but it is the one they hold.
The token conservatives that appear on their shows are generally treated with barely concealed contempt. I recall a Q&A;where Bob Carter appeared as the token AGW sceptic. When Tony Jones interviewed that Karolyi character, he was serious and courteous. When Carter said his bit, Jones kept shaking his head and smirking such was his obviously low opinion of a person who dared to not follow the crap peddled by the AGW lobby. I havent really bothered with Q&A;since.
Our ABC? Not any more...we just pay for it.

Seems a lot one eyed ,and actually blind to all the facts
And would also seem that some don’t see all what’s going down there,David beat Goliath with a slingshot so in the end right will prevail over might

Oh they know what the problem is it is just that they can’t do anything to solve it.

Lack of inertia, they are a petrified forrest, can’t move.

Classic example on the ‘Friday Wrap’ here in Melbourne, the lady of the left told a blatant lie about Gina saying that Australians should work for $2 an hour. This was after a week of controversy about what Gina actually said compared to what she was alleged to have said.

And good ol’ Jon Faine did not correct his guest, just allowed the misrepresentation to go to air unchallenged. Silence is golden Jon.

Add this to the growing list of very good reasons why an inquiry into public broadcasters is needed. The ALPBC and SBS probably should be merged and made more cost effective or both sold.

That’s right DT. The thing that should worry the shameless Labor/Greens propagandists at ABC is that the opinion that it should be sold is growing exponentially. Five years ago it was almost unheard of, but today many, many people think it should be sold. I would gladly contribute to a campaign organisation with a website dedicated to privatising the ABC, as would many others. It is just so grossly unfair that all Australian taxpayers are made to fund a broadcaster dedicated only to the far-left fringe in our society.

Another excellent article Piers. Thank God someone has the ticker to watch what sprouts from the bowls of the ABC. We all know that the standard of journalism in that organisation has been twisted for some considerable time, however there appears to be a further degredation in the standard of journalism in that organisation (and others) in recent times. Much of the reporting is higly inaccurate and absolutely woeful.

I guess with the impending defeat of their labor/union/green masters there must be considerable angst within its walls. As for Emme Alberici failing to challenge the Rami Khouri statement that “The Arabs have given the Israelis a peace plan and accepted to live with a Israeli state as it is now, predominantly a Jewish majority Israeli state”, I am utterly astounded. What on earth was going on in her mind when she chose not challenge such a statement?

The angst is further exacerpated by the fact that the AWU scandal is going to be the biggest issue of 2013, an election year.

the ABC has steadfastly refused to discuss this matter and the whole election is going to be fought on the question of Labor corruption.

It is like discussing the quality of milk without talking about cows.

BillK replied to Mike
Wed 21 Nov 12 (08:26am)

Sorry Seaforth for a moment I thought you were discussing another cow.

The AWB Investigator replied to Mike
Wed 21 Nov 12 (01:50pm)

Mike,

The problem with so many of the university trained journalists is that there is nothing going on in their minds at all.

Perhaps their minds are still suffering from the affects of drugs, the use of which seems to be the principal benefit to be gained by attending university instead of gaining some experience in the real world.

I am still trying to understand how so many Australians managed to be convinced that paying bribes to Saddam Hussein would result in the UN Oil for Food Program in Iraq choosing to buy Australian wheat.

On the subject of milk and cows, I wonder how many Australians realise that they chose a Prime Minister named Mr Rudd, even though Mr Rudd was raised on a dairy farm and never managed to learn how to milk a cow.

A corrupt media tends to corrupt many other aspects of our community by failing to keep the public properly informed.

Good morning Piers. Would the ABC allowed Osama an uninterrupted platform to brag about how terrorism is all the fault of the USA? Disgraceful, and Tony should axe it when he gets in.

I’m making my husbands lunch and I watch him drive off to work this morning as I do most mornings. I know he and we are going to have a peaceful day. I’m pretty sure he’s coming back home sometime in the afternoon. How much do we take for granted - thanks for reminding me how lucky I am Piers.

The Howard Coalition government’s Pacific Solution had worked to effectively stop people smuggling by boat, Labor abandoned the deterrents that worked and are now fiddling with their own solutions that will never work effectively, and they know it. So we need to ask why they are effectively encouraging people smugglers. In my opinion their reason is what was called “ethnic branch stacking”, a strategy devised by Keating Labor years ago to recruit new branch members as union membership declines. Too bad about social problems resulting. Whatever it takes.

TassieRooster replied to Big Ears lover
Wed 21 Nov 12 (06:44am)

It’s even worse than that when you factor in the exponential curve of how many children these 30,000 (mostly men) off the boats will breed once they bring out their wives. Bear in mind that these poor women are not allowed to use birth control or given a choice about being constantly bred either. I wonder if the Australian Bureau of Statistics has ever released a figure for the birth-rate of Muslim “Australians”? Or is the even the collation of such a figure verboten?

What a wonderful future Australia we are bequeathing to our children. All thanks to the moral cowardice of the ALP & the outright madness of the Greens (backed at every turn by their propaganda wing; “Their” ABC). Australia is a global rarity in that we have never had a civil war, but our likely population “mix” in less than 2 decades time - if things continue as they are - will see that proud distinction disappear.

sarah replied to Big Ears lover
Wed 21 Nov 12 (06:57am)

Mostly Muslim men with no papers.Many pretending to be teens when they aren’t.

I find that very frightening.
If that sounds non PR sorry but I am just saying what I feel.

BillK replied to Big Ears lover
Wed 21 Nov 12 (08:20am)

And all this when Gillard promised to “smash the people smuggler model”.

A fine lot of smashing she’s doing. They seem to be thriving?

Anything she says would have to be turned around 180 degrees to be believed. She has actually improved the people smuggler model. They are arriving in hoardes.

Jack replied to Big Ears lover
Wed 21 Nov 12 (08:40am)

The structure of the Australian Islamic State is getting stronger everyday day, look around and tell me if I’m blind?????

Nana from the Mount replied to Big Ears lover
Wed 21 Nov 12 (08:52am)

@Sarah - “Many pretending to be teens when they aren’t.”

They are as “teen” as the characters in the movie Grease. Don’t ever apologise for saying what you feel.

BTW, BEL I always look forward to your posts.

Grumps replied to Big Ears lover
Wed 21 Nov 12 (09:06am)

Where are the headlines in every newspaper telling us that they have let in 30000?
Why is the media hiding this from the public?
Very few of the general population are aware of these figures.
We are being let down and betrayed by our government and their media circus.

P.J. replied to Big Ears lover
Wed 21 Nov 12 (10:00am)

BEL, Scott Morrison has stated the position of LNP regarding asylum seekers and it sounds fine to me! Like Captain Amed, there are probably many UNDESIRABLES invited here by GILLARD! The SUPERMARKETS employ the asylum seekers in preference to Australians, and some are quite pleasant and helpful when delivering goods, but I do wonder where all the Australian drivers are these days! Do the supermarkets pay these people LESS than the award wages?

Seaforth replied to Big Ears lover
Wed 21 Nov 12 (10:15am)

.Many pretending to be teens when they aren’t.

The giveaway is when they turn up to immigration wearing a baseball cap back- the- front and carrying a skateboard under their arm.
When asked about how come they have 8 kids they reply; “ we started early”.

Big Ears lover replied to Big Ears lover
Wed 21 Nov 12 (11:44am)

That’s scary DT, I hadn’t heard of Ethnic branch stacking, you are always so informative, thanks.
Hey Tassie, I heard that the average birth rate they are instructed to populate Western countries is around 8-13 children. I don’t know where I heard that (Piers!) but it was a memorable number. It’s all about implimenting Islamic law world wide as quickly as they can.
Jack, you are not blind, and sarah, like Nanna said, don’t apologise. It’s damned frightening esp. if you check out DT’s theory.
Grumps ‘headlines’ are you mad, they have more important issues such as Tony’s imaginary dented wall covering the front page!
Seaforth, if it wasn’t true it’d be a fantastic joke wouldn’t it! If only she’d turn the boats around 180 degrees BillK!
Hi there P’J, when are they going to learn… don’t fix it if it ain’t broke, and Nanna, those ‘Greecians’ were old… and BTW, thanks!!
That was fun!!!!!

Big Ears lover replied to Big Ears lover
Wed 21 Nov 12 (11:51am)

P.J, good question. Maybe the supermarkets are subsidised by Gillard (us) for the illegals employment? Maybe that’s why there are so many? Maybe that is something Piers should don his ‘secret squirrel’ cap for and investigate????

Their ABC was also happy to take a feed of a press conference in which an Al Jezeera reporter absolutely flayed an Israeli spokesman. Shouted over the top of him, accused Israel of deliberately trying to kill journalists etc etc.
Such a shame the shame standard of inquisitorial reporting is not to applied to Hamas or the pro-Palestinian lobby.
The BBC hasn’t been much better mind you.

The people behind the Israeli bombings are of the exact type of mindset that Gillard is allowing to come into Australia at taxpayer funded expense by illegal flotilla.

She and Labor should hang their heads in shame for the future unrest they are promoting and facilitating for our children. How dare they ignore the wishes of the populace and totally fail to secure our borders.

I am offended by this woman failing to act, I am offended by her complete lack of border policy, I am offended by the gutless Immigration Minister, I am offended by being treated as of no consequence but more than anything I have the compensation of being able to vote.

“The Al-Qassam Brigades love death more than you love life.”
I’m sure we can oblige these cowards if push comes to shove G.O.

They show juvenile bravado only when protected by women and children, but when confronted by trained troops they squeal like little girls.
Despise, loathe, abhore are such useless words when describing these beings.

Well what type of interviews do you expect from the Lefties at our ABC.

San the problem with ABC land is that they are all testicular challenged.

Whenever they have the red-headed one in their studio, they (gulp) soil their nappies. What is that strange vapour lingering in the air? Is it Chanel 5? no, something more earthy with overtones of beans and cabbage.

As someone said,
The unions were run by the cream of the working class but today they are run by the dregs of the middle class, it would seem that the same could be said about the ABC.
Or
The ABC is dominated by university educated labor voting atheists.

Exactly, Waste. Apparently it’s the ‘ideology’ that they’re loyal to and the state of the economy isn’t their problem. They’re above such mundane things.

I’m just watching Paul Henry on 10. He’s spoken sense about Nauru and the token blonde is rolling her tear filled eyes at his common sense comments.

What a waste replied to What a waste
Wed 21 Nov 12 (12:41pm)

Caz,
I think you are right about ‘ideology’ and being loyal to it regardless of all else, if the coalition did what labor has done there would be union-green-getup riots on the streets.
Many of the so called capitalist pigs would be university educated labor voting atheists even though labor make life tough for them and unions give them the run around they could never be disloyal.

Ceasefire for now, hope it lasts. Egypt comes to the rescue. The Israelis do not need these constant bombing attacks by Hamas. The Jewish people want peace. Report this ABC!
Gaza truce hinges on Israeli approval
by: John Lyons, Gaza City From: The Australian November 21, 2012 12:00AM
THE Middle East appeared to have pulled back from the brink last night after Egyptian media reported Israel and Hamas had agreed a ceasefire.

The apparent breakthrough came as senior Israeli ministers were quoted as saying that Israel had decided to hold off from launching a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip to give Egyptian-led truce efforts a chance to work.

“A decision was taken that for the time being there is a temporary hold on the ground incursion to give diplomacy a chance to succeed,” a senior official told Agence France-Presse.

“They discussed both the state of the diplomacy and the military operation.”

Al-Arabiya news agency reported that a ceasefire would be implemented in two stages.

The first stage would be the end of bombing and rocketing: Israel would agree to end its aerial and naval bombing of Gaza and Hamas would agree to end rocket fire into Israel.

The second stage would involve addressing longer-term issues such as Israel allowing free movement through its crossing and lifting its blockade of the strip.

If the left are the side of caring, equality and love, why is their nastiness and hate so palpable, so obvious that you can feel it vibrating off them with a strength that makes you feel ill? Is this the real dividing line between the left and the right? Are the left fundamentally, at their very core, anti-Semites who hide their Jew hate with all the empty, useless nonsense they carry on with?

Is that why nothing adds up, why nothing they do or say makes sense? They talk about caring for the worker and the poor but things are always worse for them under a left Government. Because they dont give a crap about the poor, they just hate the Jews? Is their baseless hatred of business a blanket statement to hide that they really mean ‘Jewish businesses?’ The empty rhetoric is just smoke and mirrors to hide their real agenda.

They’ve found the way to eventually destroy Israel. By increasing the Muslim populations in Western countries, they will soon have the weight of public opinion on their side. Muslims will always back an anti-Israel/America platform.

The ABC isn’t alone in their pro-Palestine bias. The BBC have been doing it for years.

The persecution of the Jews is very biblical Caz. Jesus let it be known when Veronica wiped his bloody face as he carried his cross. She wept, and he said to her. “Don’t weep for me, but weep for your children and their childrens children”
There’s been the Spanish inquisition, the Russian pogrom, the Nazi Holocaust and the Islamists to name a few.

I am looking for a word, a word that describes doing what you know is wrong but doing it because it serves your purpose. Such as a lawyer in a court saying something he knows the judge will order struck from the record,but saying it because it will help sway the jury. Or a politician making attacks,known to be unjustified, but making them all the same because it suits his/her purpose. Or journalists denying the obvious because denial fits their political bias. Hypocrisy is the closest I can get, but that is not quite it. But using hypocrisy as a weapon? There must be a word out there somewhere. Anyone?

Yes, and the very expensive Barrister who artfully used the false testimony of his client, a pedophile, and the false testimony of some of the pedophiles children to bedazzle a jury. He then destroyed the claims made by the victim (ten years of abuse from 4 years of age) by finding the flaws in her testimony such as - “did he touch your right leg or your left leg on that Saturday afternoon in 2001?” - ‘What was the date on that day?’ - “The owner of the vehicle (one of the pedophiles adult children - an uncle) has testified that there were piles of clothes including his wife’s old wedding dress on the back seat of the car. How were you able to fit into the back seat of the car with an elderly man?” - “When you returned to your grandparents home on Christmas night what did you have for supper - what time did you return there?” and so on. The victim was shot out of the water. The not guilty verdict delivered in 20 minutes. Estimated cost of defence including local solicitor and staff and second trial (Barrister appeared twice for approx a week each time) - $150,000. A childhood destroyed an adulthood of anxiety and vilification a family shattered. The courts are not always a place of justice.

Mother G replied to GQ
Wed 21 Nov 12 (08:10am)

I can start with DISHONESTY.

David of Brisbane replied to GQ
Wed 21 Nov 12 (09:01am)

NOTE for Judith via GQ.

I am in the middle of reading “In God’s House” by Ray Mouton.

It tells the story of the expose of the widespread abuse of children in America. This was in 1984/85 at the start of the long road for justice for the child abuse victims.

The principal abuser, a priest, had been abusing children all his life. The church knew he was a pedophile even before he was ordained. In the seminary he was offered a “f-buddy”, another seminarian to use and share a room with. The man refused and said I only do it with young children, not grown men, they do not interest me in the least.

After his ordination he abused children, as young as six, in every parish he was sent to over the next 30 years. Every time some one complained he was moved on.

It came to a head when the church paid off 6 children with 600,000 dollars each. Problem was another 11 came forward and the whole thing fell apart as more and more victims came forward. The entire hirearchy of the church knew what was going on, and still does. A certain cardinal in Rome kept the lid on complaints for many long years until he was promoted to a higher job.

The legal fixers who defend these people are the lowest of the low. They become millionaires by denigrating the victims and collecting fat fees from the churches.

Their are numerous actions happening right now in the UK which will cost the churches untold millions.

The Jimmy Savile affair is smothering what is happening with actions against at least a dozen different schools and colleges, with cases going back to the 1940’s. At one catholic college in Manchester the principal, a monsignor, abused and rape young boys with impunity for at least 16 years, helped by some of the others on his staff. One of whom went on the become a bishop. After being finally stopped he went off to an unknowing country parish where thankfully he died in 1968. Some of his victims committed suicide and other tried too. At this one school at least 400 young lives were wrecked. like Savile, more victims keep coming forward.

Remember Judith all these lawyers will all rot on hell one day along side the perpetrators they defended.

P.J. replied to GQ
Wed 21 Nov 12 (10:11am)

? illegal?

BillK replied to GQ
Wed 21 Nov 12 (01:04pm)

Crooked?

Big Ears lover replied to GQ
Wed 21 Nov 12 (02:54pm)

I’m going to get the book David.
Judith, the court system has nothing to do with Justice ever. It dosen’t abide by the constitution, and it doesn’t have a conscience. Lawyers pledge their allegiance to the court first, even before the client who is forking out a fortune to pay them. They know the lies, so they rejig the questions for a favourable outcome that has nothing to do with the truth. It’s an evil institution when you read about how it is formed.

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Piers Akerman

Piers has been one of The Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph's best-read columnists since 1993. One of the nation's most respected journalists he has worked in New York, London, Washington and Los Angeles. He lives in Sydney with his wife and two daughters and enjoys a wide range of activities.